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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Efore writing Dracula, Stoker spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. The original 541-page manuscript of Dracula, believed to have been lost, was found in a barn in northwestern Pennsylvania during the early 1980s.

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires.

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent several years researching European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) has attained universal celebrity for his novel Dracula (1897), the most notable and influential novel of vampirism ever written But Dracula is only one of several important works written by Stoker over his long career lthough he spent much of his life as the personal secretary for the famous actor Sir Henry Irving, he became well known in his own right for novels and stories that cover a wide range of motifs in weird fiction.

This volume features the best of Stoker's writings he centerpiece of the book is Dracula, a novel that continues to fascinate readers more than a century after its publication From the opening pages, when Jonathan Harker ventures to Castle Dracula in the wilds of Transylvania, to the spectacular conclusion, in which the evil count is chased back to his native soil and destroyed by a band of valiant men, the novel is a thrilling read while also dealing with issues of sexuality and religion.

N addition, this volume includes the novel The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), an unforgettable novel of Egyptian horror The concluding scene, where a scholar engages in a “Great Experiment”, the magical resurrection of a mummified pharaoh-queen whom he has unearthed, is one of the most potent episodes in weird fiction toker also wrote a number of short stories, gathered in such collections as Under the Sunset (1882) and the posthumous Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914).

Included here are “The Judge's House,” “The Squaw,” “The Burial of the Rats,” and “Dracula's Guest,” originally designed as the second chapter of Dracula but later removed he volume has been edited by S oshi, a leading authority on weird fiction Joshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012).

Edition Details

• Introduction by S. T. Joshi.
• Massive, 782-page, low-cost edition of Stoker’s best stories.
• Includes two complete novels: Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full black cloth binding.
• Embossed Bram Stoker signature on front board.
• Gorgeous dustjacket.
• Photographs of Bram Stoker.
• Book size 5¾ × 9 inches.
• Number of pages: 782.

External Links

• Library of Weird Fiction: Bram Stoker. Centipede Press page for Library of Weird Fiction: Bram Stoker
• Bram Stoker (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Bram Stoker